“So it seems as though this part of us that is living a life on Earth is only a small piece or splinter of a much larger us. That we are many rather than one, or rather pieces of a more complex whole. We are only able to focus on the splinter we perceive as our totality. That is a good thing, because if we were aware of the complexity of it we would not be able to function in this world or reality. We are only able to see the facade that masks a much larger picture. Only now are we being allowed to peek behind the veil.” ― Dolores Cannon, The Convoluted Universe, Book 1

Most likely it is not your first life. There are two types of humans on their first life:

1. ‘Baby -souls” who never had any physical bodies and came straight to Earth after being created by the Source. They usually incarnate as tribal people or in a small rural community, as they are not ready for the ‘information overload” of modern civilization - they are just learning to live in a physical body, survive on Earth, and have basic relationships. If you were born in a modern city, went to school, and can use the Internet - you are not a baby-soul. In past life regression - when asked to see the first life on Earth - clients usually see animals, plants, or cavemen, occasionally a past life in a small village or a tribe. Many souls had past lives as minerals, plants, and animals before taking on human bodies, but I also had many clients whose first-ever physical life was human, skipping all the evolutionary steps.

2. Extraterrestrial Volunteers who had past lives in energy worlds or advanced civilizations on other planets. They have all kinds of unusual abilities - healing, telepathy, manifestation, communication with higher dimensional beings, advanced skills in arts or sciences - they can be child prodigies, who end up becoming millionaires or admitted to prestigious colleges in their early teenage years. (not everybody, of course, just some of them) They know they are not from Earth, and miss their real home in the stars. Dolores Cannon’s book ‘Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth” is about these souls. In past life regression, they can’t see any human lives and go straight to another planet or an energy world. They remember why they decided or were asked to come to Earth and what is their Mission here.

Irina Nola - Past Life Regression Therapist https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-know-if-this-is-my-first-life

Dolores Cannon was a famous hypnotherapist who specialized in past life regression amongst other factets of therapy. Read her full story here: http://www.dolorescannon.com/about/

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 Early Life and Pre-Hypnosis

Dolores Cannon was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 1931 where she lived and grew up with her family until completing her academic studies in 1947. She married her husband Johnny in 1951, a career US Naval man with whom she spent the next 21 years travelling all over the world to accommodate his various overseas assignments. She raised her family as a typical navy wife throughout the 1950s and 1960s until 1968 when several major events ultimately changed the course of her life forever.

 First Exposure to Reincarnation

In the 1960s, Dolores and Johnny were using simple hypnosis for habits (stop smoking, lose weight, etc.). Dolores was first introduced to reincarnation in 1968 when she and her husband were asked by one of the doctors at the naval base he was stationed at in Texas to help one of his patients using hypnosis. The woman suffered from Nervous Eating disorder, was extremely obese, had high blood pressure and suffered from kidney problems. The doctor thought it would be extremely beneficial if hypnosis could be used to help the woman simply relax.

Midway through the session, the woman unexpectedly began describing scenes from a past life where she was a flapper, living in Chicago in the roaring 1920s. Dolores and Johnny watched as the woman literally transformed into a different personality with different vocal patterns and body mannerisms. Despite being highly strange and completely inexplicable, they decided to go with the flow of the session and see what they could find out by exploring. Over the next several months, Dolores and Johnny regressed the woman through five different and distinct lifetimes back to when she was created by God. The entire story of this event is told in the first book Dolores ever wrote, Five Lives Remembered (2009).

These sessions took place at a time when past life regression was a nearly unheard of concept. There was no New Age movement yet, Metaphysics was still decades away and there were simply no books, instructions to guide or resources she could use for a case like this. This, however, proved to be a blessing in disguise as it prompted Dolores and Johnny to write their own set of rules, develop their own technique without oversight from an established medical body and meant that they were not limited or confined in their approach in any way. As a result of not having anyone to tell her what to do, how to do it or what was or was not possible, they experimented with insatiable intrigue and enthusiasm.

Later that same year, Johnny was almost killed by a drunk driver in a horrendous automobile accident on his way to the Naval Base. As a result of his injuries and being confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life as a partial amputee, Dolores and Johnny decided to relocate to the hills of Arkansas where they thought they would be able to afford living on a military pension with their four children. During this time, Dolores” explorations in hypnosis and reincarnation took a back seat as she was completely focused on her husband and raising her children.